Fan Claims Arcade Fire/Pearl Jam Basketball Game Broke His Nose

"All I heard was Win [Butler] going off about how the rules are rubbish down here, and throwing balls around and chucking a bit of a hissy fit."

Here's a goofy news item from this weekend's Auckland installment of the Big Day Out Festival: Pearl Jam fan Sherif Hassan says he got his nose broken during a particularly rough game of pick-up basketball that included Arcade Fire's Win Butler and Pearl Jam's Jeff Ament. In an interview with Triple J radio (via NME), Hassan said: "[Jeff Ament's] aggressive, I'll tell you that much. He broke my nose."

"It was actually the last play of the game," he said. "All I heard was Win [Butler] going off about how the rules are rubbish down here, and throwing balls around and chucking a bit of a hissy fit." But apparently a broken nose was a fair tradeoff for Hassan, who got to go backstage at the festival and meet Lorde, Major Lazer, and Mac Miller in exchange for his injury. "Eddie Vedder gave me a shout out," he added.